The State of beehiiv for PR finds that 81.6% of beehiiv newsletters published in the last 30 days, 57.0% link a LinkedIn profile, and business, technology, and AI are the largest categories
Featured, the AI co-pilot for PR, recently added 6,251 beehiiv newsletters to Find Independent Writers, the search inside Featured’s chat that lets PR professionals and subject-matter experts find newsletter writers by topic in plain language, see who they are and what they cover, and draft a pitch from the same screen. A user types a request such as “find beehiiv newsletters that cover B2B SaaS marketing,” reviews the matching newsletters with their authors, topics, publishing cadence, linked social accounts, and the subscriber count a newsletter displays, then clicks Draft Pitch to get a starting draft to edit before sending. Results download as a CSV.
beehiiv is home to some of the largest newsletters in business and technology, and its writers rarely sit in a newsroom directory. Among beehiiv newsletters that display a subscriber count, the largest include The Rundown AI (2,000,000) and Superhuman AI (1,500,000). beehiiv’s own State of Paid Newsletters 2026 report, published June 22, 2026, says subscription revenue on the platform grew from $8 million in 2024 to $19 million in 2025. Muck Rack’s State of Creator Journalism report, published October 28, 2025, found that one in three journalists now self-publish independently. Finding the right beehiiv newsletter for a story has meant checking publications one at a time. Find Independent Writers is built for that one task: describe the coverage you want, see who writes it, and start the pitch from the same screen.
“beehiiv writers publish fast, and most of them link a LinkedIn or Instagram profile, which makes them easy to reach and easy to pitch badly,” said Brett Farmiloe, founder and CEO of Featured. “A pitch that lands is one that names the newsletter’s last issue and offers something the next issue needs. We built this search so a PR professional can find the five beehiiv newsletters that already cover their subject, not blast five hundred. Relevance over volume is the whole product.”
What the data shows about 6,251 beehiiv newsletters
Featured analyzed the 6,251 beehiiv newsletters in its Find Independent Writers database as of October 20, 2026. The full analysis, with the method and definitions, is in The State of beehiiv for PR.
- 81.6% published at least once in the last 30 days, and 47.7% published 12 or more times in the last 90 days, roughly weekly or more.
- 85.7% link at least one social account, and 70.8% link two or more. Instagram (57.9%) and LinkedIn (57.0%) lead, followed by X (47.4%), YouTube (38.2%), Facebook (34.4%), and TikTok (23.7%).
- 38.0% are recommended by at least one other beehiiv newsletter.
- 42.9% publish on their own custom domain, 16.1% offer paid subscriptions, and 7.4% also run a podcast.
- Among the 470 newsletters that display a subscriber count on their site, the median is 17,000, 294 show 10,000 or more, and 86 show 100,000 or more.
- Among the 5,834 newsletters with a category tag, the largest categories are business (27.0%), technology (16.8%), artificial intelligence (14.6%), marketing (10.5%), community (10.5%), news (10.4%), and finance (9.9%). A newsletter can carry more than one category, so category shares add to more than 100%.
“The beehiiv writer who covers your category probably published in the last month and probably links a social profile,” Farmiloe added. “That is a reachable writer. The job is to read what they wrote before you write to them.”
Find Independent Writers covers Substack, beehiiv, Ghost and Medium in one search. A request like “find independent writers who cover personal finance” returns matching writers from all four platforms, and adding a platform name, as in “find beehiiv newsletters about personal finance,” narrows the results to that platform. Find Independent Writers is available now at featured.com on every Featured plan, including the free plan, with no credit card required.
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